Milwaukee River

The Milwaukee River is a 104-mile river in the state of Wisconsin, beginning in Fond du Lac County in the north and flowing through Milwaukee into Lake Michigan. The French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet navigated from Lake Michigan through the river during the 1600s, and, in 1846, the riverside towns of Juneautown, Walker's Point, and Kilbourntown merged to form Milwaukee.